EVENING. People. QUOTES OF THE DAY.

`As a physician, you know there are no people who are born...

May 23, 1997

`As a physician, you know there are no people who are born with two left feet, except in dancing.' -- Stephen Jones, attorney for Oklahoma City bombing suspect Timothy McVeigh, responding to testimony that one victim was buried with only her left leg, saying a left leg found on the scene but never matched to a victim could not be hers.

SEN. STROM THURMOND (R-S.C.), WHO AT 94 IS THE OLDEST MEMBER SERVING IN CONGRESS, ON HIS LONGEVITY: `Watch your diet, exercise reasonably and develop an optimist's attitude toward life.'

`They called her bluff and she backed down.'

Northwestern University sociology professor Charles Moskos, on the Air Force's decision not to grant 1st Lt. Kelly Flinn the honorable discharge she requested. She received a general discharge, and will not face court-martial.

`To abandon it now would rewind the tape of recent history and set the stage for renewed killing of predictable savagery.'

Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, speaking Thursday about the Dayton peace agreement for Bosnia. Albright renewed the Clinton administration's commitment to achieving a democratic, united Bosnia.

`I'm doo-doo, he's (bleep).'

Michael Jordan, indicating Scottie Pippen, after the Bulls struggled Thursday to beat the Miami Heat 75-68. Jordan used the coarse name, not the euphemism, to describe the duo's poor play.

`You never know, we might have real hot new chicken stuff before too long.'

Michael R. Quinlan, chairman and chief executive officer of McDonald's Corp., dropping a hint Thursday about new directions that company might take.

`This service is like an opera, it's so deep.'

Rabbi Alex Graubar, on the annual Memorial Day Liturgy for Persons Affected by HIV/AIDS at St. Clement Catholic Church in Chicago.

`I think he got the last laugh, because he will be here in this hall many years after all the rest of that Congress is gone.'

Bo Callaway, referring to the late astronaut John L. Swigert, who became famous for uttering the phrase "Houston, we have a problem," when an explosion ripped apart an oxygen tank on Apollo 13 in 1970. Callaway, chairman of the Republican Party in Colorado when Swigert was elected to Congress in 1982, spoke at the dedication Thursday of the new Swigert statue erected in the halls of Congress. Swigert died of complications from cancer before he could take office.